skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If both are now crypto secure, what's the point of having both? Also seems like they've made math/rand slower, not a win in my book.
Archived copy: http://web.archive.org/web/20240502092655/https://www.selfaw...
There's a lot of inconvenient truths one needs to accept if they want to advocate for widespread nuclear energy. Specifically, there are very real nuclear proliferation concerns which cannot be ignored. Alternative clean energy sources, which are safe on the global scale, can made widely available with proper investment. That should be the future.
https://archive.is/EvmiL
Planting is just the first step as I see it.

After the trees have grown, you need to harvest them and - somehow - make sure they don't rot and return the CO2 to the atmosphere.

Finding space for that is what I mean by "take up space at scale".
To avoid XSS, try physical lightsabers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyLSZee1uN8&t=202s
ugh. had this idea more than 14 years ago with nothing to do it for. hope the concept takes off.
You typoed your brand, title: Blackflag Careers
And I guessed a while ago that this is why people on HN sometimes say "citation needed", when someone makes a claim about something.
rbspy: A Sampling CPU Profiler for Ruby
What a terribly argued article and a thinly veiled attempt to undermine the death with dignity movement. There's absolutely nothing I've encountered worse in life than watching someone suffer out their last days. Let's make sure we do our utmost to prevent terminal illness, but when it comes, as it does for us all, every single one of us should have the right to die with dignity.
> It thus falls to proponents of MAiD to show how such deaths can be avoided, just as it falls to policymakers to build or rebuild institutions that ensure no one ever opts to end their life for lack of resources or support, which we could provide in abundance if we choose to.

Where are these abundant resources, in the US or Canada? Non-existent, that's where.

It is absolutely a "feature" of capitalist systems that "economically non-contributing" citizens cannot be supported indefinitely. That goes for every one of us that isn't a cop or firefighter with a huge pension, or didn't get lucky in our 401(k).

I know that the Jacobin is a "Marxist" magazine. But the world has repeatedly tried Marxism, and that didn't go well either.

I don't claim to have an answer. But neither do they. This article is just pointless negativity.
Yes, because communism (what else is “banning private equity”?) NEVER results in “enshitification” of ANY kind.

Seriously, the issue here can most likely be tracked to private equity taking advantage of existing regulations. Not sure why MORE state involvement in the economy would be the solution.
I wrote this to explain the problem

https://arbitrationinformation.org/docs/problems/
What "calculable metrics?" By what definition of "sovereign?" Objectively, this is a meaningless statement to me.
"Secure by default: Security protections are enabled and enforced by default, require no extra effort, and are not optional.".

Let me guess: logging in with a Microsoft Account is a security protection, as is collecting more telemetry, for security of course.
It’s the natural end result of the consumer price standard for antitrust
Bad topology generated by marching cubes from an SDF is not going to replace hand tuned topology for animated meshes in VFX and video games in the near future. Even highly dense Nanite meshes in UE5 don't support skeletal deformation yet.
Nuclear energy is a lot more dense, therefore requiring less land, and doesn't depend on the sun or wind. It also doesn't depend on future breakthroughs in storage and transmission.
This was big two years ago[0] (613 points, 258 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31781110
I don't know if they usually do that, but I could see it as some kind of deal that preserves good will for future business they might do together.

My guess is that there's quite a fuzzy distinction between commercial real estate lenders and investors, and that the roles are often reversed depending on the situation.

That is in contrast with home mortgage lending, where the borrowers are very unlikely to be lenders.
V02 max is correlated with good health outcomes precisely because it's a proxy for cardiovascular health and fitness. Seeking to improve V02 max with hacks for health benefits is like trying to improve grip strength (a proxy for strength) to improve health.

You can sustainably improve your cardiovascular health by just slowly increasing your volume of work done at 120-150 bpm over time. Say start with a program like Couch to 5k, then slowly add a day of light jogging here and there, adding 5 minutes here and there, until you're jogging 30+ miles per week.

If you want to more "optimally" improve your cardiovascular fitness, after building an aerobic base as above for 12+ weeks, you can introduce a high intensity session to get some of the unique benefits of those, but your low intensity steady state zone 2 stuff should remain at least 80% of your time spent endurance training.
The article basically lists all of the problems with the common law system. I tend to agree that it would be cheaper to build a large civil project under another system of laws but unless you are planning a revolution you have to take the political and administrative conditions into account.
Art and Memory
That is half the reason. JSON was limited to Javascript when SOAP/WSDL was king for data exchange. If I remember correctly, XML apis predates json in Javascript. IE5 and XML were really hot back then. xml.loadString() is equally simple.

Json got introduced because XMLHttpRequest was an IE-only component. Data exchange was done mostly between servers, back then the front-end was really dumb. Why xml got slowly replaced is because that for machine generated data, json proved to be sufficient. Any json library is easier to work with then their xml counterpart, exactly because of what we discuss here.
The Iterative Adjacent Possible
Sadly, Dr. John Shutt died awhile ago. There is an obit on Lambda the Ultimate, but LtU appears to be down at the moment.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230326092743/http://lambda-the...
What's the invisible cost when cigarette advertising is banned, eliminating the arms race to out-advertise the competition?
Discussion[0] (233 points, 1 day ago, 145 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40237855
I'm wondering is there any users of the Wolfram language, it it worth the price?
>(Last night I ended up writing that kind of code because GPT-4 didn't quite get it right for me, but 90% of my code like that has been LLM-created in the past 6 months and I look forward to that creeping closer to 100%)

I have bad news for your long term employability if that's the case.

I find that my code is 25% LLM-able on a good day with minor editing.

On a bad day it is 10% LLM-able with me having to edit every line to get them to fit together.
Would be cool to have a version of this app that banned photos, and only allowed music samples as an introduction.
do you have any counterpoints to what the article claims?
Notably an even higher risk of VD than Tinder, sources say.
I was going to say... if a country like China, with its massive engineering/building capacity and authoritarian "efficiency" cannot hit their nuclear construction targets, it is quite telling how difficult it must be in reality to build nuclear reactors in general.

I am still very pro-nuclear but it seems PV + wind + battery storage are coming down in price much faster than people expected and it just makes sense to build more since the incremental cost is so low, especially compared to something like nuclear. That said, there's no reason to not pursue both options, which apparently China is doing but at a slower pace for nuclear.
https://www.prc-saltillo.com/
Given the stated use cases of the post I responded to was electric vehicles and mobile devices, my response was framed in terms of that. Consumer devices - especially phones - famously prioritize battery life.
Computers are deeply engrained into our lives, often basically mandatory, yet as as societies and communities we provide little or no guidance on how to use them

They used to come with plenty of documentation, and lots of third-party documentation too. A quick search for computer books reveals that the latter is still the case.

the computer skills of someone from 20 years ago will not easily transfer to the tasks someone who is new to computers faces today

Perhaps if by "computers" you mean "smartphones", then I agree, but the basics of how to use a mouse and keyboard haven't changed in 20 years. 20 years ago was the era of Windows XP, and many of its UI paradigms --- which are at least a decade older --- still apply today to Windows 11, although a lot of it has been unnecessarily obfuscated and destroyed by designers-gone-wild.

Incidentally, I once heard that part of the drill called the "norris".
If the person was notified of a security problem, and ignored it, or tried to sweep it under the rug, instead of taking it seriously, then absolutely fire them, but assuming no malfeasance, firing people just leads to institutional knowledge loss which would lead to worse outcomes.
This doesn't look like a valid Show HN[0], it's a cool setup, but probably shouldn't have that prefix

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Bountysource Stole at Least $17,000 from Open Source Developers
In principle, it's always been about "shared responsibility principle".

But in practice, yes many clients probably assume that by running in the cloud, they're "secure" (thus, failing their end of the bargain).
Power tool woodworking injuries are no joke. Table saws, lathes, routers, and planers all want to absolutely destroy the operator.
I know a few students who are required to use discord due to the teacher distributing courae work over it.
Record a couple minutes of you playing something, upload it to your YouTube channel, and submit the link.

You’re acting like young people wanting to join a band don’t know how to post things on the Internet.
The natural objection is that the Fukushima response was a significant overreaction.

Counting that cost is like including Iraq war costs for oil usage (perhaps fair for the first gulf war, but the expense of the second was an independent policy mistake)

[1] (least bad Forbes article I’ve read in years) https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/03/11...
90% of my job is spent redesigning and optimizing code that “just transforms XML into JSON and back again.” The problem is when you don’t have a good mental model for how the code works and how it will evolve over time you make bad design decisions. An algorithm that’s fast for 99% of inputs can be accidentally quadratic for 1% of inputs and lead to major tail latency (group membership in AuthZ systems is a great example) which leads to months of wasted human effort over years because of the bad design decision (and now nobody is at the company who knows how it works anymore). Does this sound familiar to anyone else?

The point of learning Dijkstra’s algorithm isn’t to be able to reproduce it, the point is that you know what’s available to you to solve a problem and what areas of the algorithm you can tweak for your use case.

If you don’t have a good mental model of how the code works and how you write a maintainable solution then you’re not able to analyze the tradeoffs of the high level competing requirements like AppSec vs UX vs Maintenance vs Engineering Effort that is at the heart of what a software engineer does.

And this doesn’t change with AI either, the code that comes out of LLMs is often poorly designed but you can’t tell that unless you have worked on different types of systems to know why we might use immutable data here but shared memory in this situation.
Power drills are pretty benign to the operator as long as they know not to try to use the drill bit as a router or sander. I've seen plenty of people try to knock off an edge with the side of a bit. Sure it can be done, but its also a great way to have it jump and catch the side of your hand.
Do steamdeck games use wine or are they native Linux ports?
But then how did you access those files yourself, if their names looked like just spaces? Would they not be invisible to you too?
> there seems to be a lot of gatekeeping in tech

Yes. And in many other industries but it is especially bad with the types CS attracts.
So you don’t need an app like this in order to find gigs or collaborators.
Totally agree. But a long time ago I saw a take kwon do guy break stones like you find in a river bed with his fist. I remember later on I saw his hands and they were almost crippled. They were huge and didn’t seem to have too much movement left. I think he broke them many times and would grow a lot of bone that way. Same way some muay Thai fighters have super solid shins.
Modular reactor units only cover the least expensive part of nuclear power plants. They still need fuel enrichment, cooling towers, turbines, complex plumbing, containment buildings, huge workforces, security perimeters, spent fuel pools, dry casks, etc.

People play on the words ‘reactor’ but modular reactors themselves don’t actually solve any pressing issues and at least currently just cost more.
That is the true cost of nuclear, though. Costs associated with social licensing are just costs, no different from labor or materials. The safety requirements may be excessive and irrational, but they're not going away while the general public remains fearful. Any cost that can't go away in a realistic universe is ... just another cost.

Another social licensing risk is early plant closure. The levelized cost of nuclear energy is the best case scenario. This number assumes that your country won't become like Germany. What will happen to the ROI of nuclear if there's a moral panic in 15 years forcing early plant closures? Nobody can predict the irrationality of the crowd. Renewables don't face such risks to ROI.
Article title: How big is the Flutter team?
If it's anything like the LHC, they will very aggressively prune the raw data, only keeping the parts that are deemed to be of some interest.
Countries regularly legislate and regulate against various forms of unfair terms in contracts, ranging from the deceptive and absurd to fairly mundane things. You can’t enter into contracts requiring illegal behaviour for instance. This is true in the U.S. and all other countries that I’m aware of.

In the UK and other European countries, particularly regarding consumer goods or other kinds of contracts with an inherent asymmetry of negotiating power, there are lots of things you can’t agree in contracts, such as disclaiming general fitness for purpose and safety.

Deciding that you can’t agree away your rights to redress through the judicial system seems like a reasonable extension of these kinds of rules.
Yeah, more of a pinch and twist.
Gazans are victimized by Hamas, and then victimized again by Israel. Israel deliberately helped arrange for Hamas, an organization that held onto control of Gaza by force not persuasion, to be the most important actor in supply chains into Gaza and the sole political outlet for Gazan self-determination, then stood back and watched after 2017 as it transformed into an explicit death cult. It galls to see people attempt to tag Palestinians with responsibility for that. I'll be the first to say that the situation in Israel/Palestine is too complicated to summarize neatly, but whatever the hierarchy of culpability is, ordinary Gazans must be at the very bottom of it.

If we agree about that, do you feel like the comment you wrote reflects that sensibility? Like a reasonable person reading it would get that vibe? It wasn't the vibe I got, but this is a message board, so I want to be careful not to let my expectations get out of hand.
Show HN: Generate engaging UGC shorts from a product URL
Hey HN! Sophia here from Glato AI. For the last 3 months, we've been heads down building a cutting-edge short video ads generator.

We got the idea because creating UGC shorts for user acquisition is a massive pain. Hiring creators costs $100+ per vid and takes forever. So we thought, why not use AI to automate this?

That's where Glato AI comes in - it's one of the most advanced AI workflows we've built. Just feed it a product URL and it'll analyze the details, find related media, understand what's being shown, write a script, create an expressive avatar, lay out each scene with b-roll and effects - the whole pipeline.

We're excited to launch the alpha today! It's still pretty early, so hit us up with any issues or improvement ideas. We'll be iterating like crazy based on your feedback. Give Glato AI a try and let us know what you create!
The concern's probably that in order for location tracking to not give you their exact home location, they'd have to drive a good distance away from their home or something before allowing it once. That doesn't seem less difficult than searching for the city from the comfort of their home.
Legacy.

For a long time IE could be depended on to either a) not support a standard b) claim to support a standard but do it wrong or differently from anyone else or c) have equivalent behavior to a standard but with proprietary extensions.

Also, Microsoft bundled IE with Windows to leverage its desktop monopoly power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Internet_Explorer#U...
We work in a glass factory. Everyone is going to break something sometime. And it's the job to structure it so it isn't too much.
> I would say 99.999% of all modern work is "surrogate activity" (an activity that is directed toward an artificial goal that people set up for themselves merely in order to have some goal to work toward.)

I think this level of hyperbole only feels correct when you've been trapped in the kinds of companies where everyone is at least ten steps removed from the customer. When you're sitting through meetings and pushing around abstract "work" to achieve artificial goals all day, it can seem like modern work is all made up and arbitrary.

But step outside one of these absurd corporate jobs and you'll see plenty of people doing "real" work, and doing a lot of it. It's eye opening to go from a corporate behemoth to a small company where what you do actually matters to customers. Once you see the effect your work has on something up close, it makes a lot more sense.

Every time I read an HN comment where someone is romanticizing Ted Kaczynski's writings, it feels like they're coming from a place of being just a bit too chronically online and a bit too disconnected from how the real world works outside of the internet and corporate life.
They closed a bug from 2005, respect.
I think you posted the wrong link? This doesn't say Israel paid Hamas, it says Qatar (in the course of funding basic infrastructure like electricity in Gaza) did. Israel simply didn't stop them from doing it. If Israel had, people would be accusing them of killing Gazan civilians because Gaza wouldn't have electricity, and thus no functioning hospitals. Kind of a lose-lose for them.

I can see why Texas A&M would want to exit a country that's currently sheltering Hamas leadership, however. Kind of a bad look.
They use their own variant of wine (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton)
I love what you're doing with the parens but for those who find it difficult:

I think it is helpful to include documentation; that will (hopefully, if the documentation is well written) make it easier to figure out, if the user reads the documentation. Devices and computer programs that do not have documentation are more difficult. Sometimes some of the functions can be figured out without too much difficulty. E.g. I have once figured out how to operate a radio scanner, even though most other people there could not figure it out, and I have never operated a radio scanner before. Perhaps if they read the documentation (if they had it; I didn't have it so maybe they didn't either) they would figure it out and I would also figure it out more easily. But having good documentation is better.
The first comment on that HN submission explains that it was a NDA violation.
Timbre was right there.
I think is just the way of the world. Not saying it's right but it's just reality. I come from a place where people kill and do horrible things for 10 dollars a day to build the same battery with maybe a 10 percent drop in quality. I doubt anyone in the US would be willing to work for that comparative advantage or something at play. How would you ensure that doesn't happen? Making everyone equal via something like Marshall Plan type thing is considered Marxist rhetoric I doubt it would be viable right? Plus there's the issue of competing nations
Many are native, many use Proton.
There must be at least an inkling of a premonition that being located in a petrostate is not really necessary for the future. Although punching holes in the ground is a durable skill, petroleum engineering as a widespread industry will be on the ropes as this century proceeds.
Issue title: Where is James[0] If you have some commentary about it, perhaps a blog post?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Cost declines have made storage viable already:

https://reneweconomy.com.au/batteries-smash-more-records-as-...

Global storage production is 1TW/h per annum now and will increase to 4TW/h by 2030, while also being cheaper.
any change to the practice is an experiment.
Costa Rica is a sovereign country, they can just say "no" to foreign corporations. (So could most other governments, it's just that some have corrupt leaders who want to keep receiving the bribes)
That seems highly illegal. I’m not sure I believe that.
I've used sites that are trying something similar to find bands in the past. So I think I'm pretty close to the target market (or have been in my past). I don't want to post bass-player-looking-for-band on Craigslist or such -- did it once, and you get swamped by shitty bands who mostly still don't send any audio.

As a bass player, I want to hear if the singer can sing, and if the sketches of songs are good.

I can also play all of the standard band instruments at varying levels of competence, but I'm not much of a songwriter. What people expect from bass players and drummers is that they are good at catching things quickly and writing interesting parts.
Gangsters. I've heard several anecdotes about how they get into, but don't easily come out of the body and tend to bounce around inside, leaving the victim to die slowly in agonizing pain.
Aside from the complexity, part of the issue when comparing nuclear and solar is this: In the US we like to externalize our environmental damage as much as possible, which was one of the “benefits” of moving manufacturing to China. This has been one of the main effects of the environmental movement in the US, simply making a lot of things infeasible. As long as the US environment is clean, damage elsewhere is tolerated. (Maybe that wasn’t the intention, but it is the result.)

With solar we can externalize the environmental damage almost 100% if the panels are manufactured somewhere else. We would install them somewhere else if we could, too. With nuclear there is always some underlying amortized risk of problems, and this perceived risk is impossible to externalize. Again, what is important is the perception of damage rather than actual damage.

Of course I’m also not quantifying the actual damage from either one. I’m not sure which one is worse in terms of raw material extraction or CO2 emissions per lifetime KWh produced. I checked and it seems solar might be higher for CO2. But that difference isn’t going to matter if nuclear doesn’t get built.
I would charge for syncing like obsidian does. You can set up your own syncing, but you can also pay to not have to do that and let you handle it. Especially syncing projects that multiple people have access to can be a pain. If you have a decent solution for it you should charge for it.